Michael Kidd-Gilchrist has helped pass bills in two states to make insurance cover speech therapy. Tennessee is one of his next targets.

“There’s one important thing to always remember: A tooth will never walk in your office unattached,” Kevin Reed said. “They all come attached to living, breathing human beings. We’re treating people, not teeth.”

The hospital plans to double the capacity of the hospital’s ICU and add more than 4,700 feet to its ER. 

“I strongly encourage everyone to take advantage of this opportunity to obtain additional free COVID-19 test kits delivered to your home address,” said the Shelby County Health Department’s director.

The ZeroTo510 Accelerator, a 90-day program managed by Epicenter Memphis, will help five entrepreneurs move their medical technology projects closer to commercialization.

“If we don’t find a way to work together, ... these problems can get bigger and worse,” said William Yotive, coordinator for World Federation of United Nations Associations. “Then, we lose control.”

“We want to empower our community to advocate for themselves, know the right questions to ask and get the right treatment,” said the chief of staff at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. 

A hospital team arrived at the Memphis Zoo with a full-size ultrasound machine to perform and interpret EKGs for two of the great apes, an endangered species.

The hotel selection and design have pushed the project timeline back from the end of 2027 to early 2028.

In 2015, Fayette County’s only hospital closed after averaging one inpatient a day. Baptist is counting on a population boom due to BlueOval City. 

The Memphis location is the 98th Fisher House built by The Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit that builds the homes at military and VA medical centers around the world.

Black men are 70% more likely to develop cancer of the prostate and twice as likely to die from it compared to their white counterparts.

The Semmes Murphey Clinic has diagnosed and treated patients with neurological disorders for more than a century, and once a month it hosts the region’s only multidisciplinary clinic for patients with ALS, aka Lou Gherig’s disease.

Health officials in Kentucky and Tennessee are working together to evaluate exposures to the measles. 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the official charitable partner of SpaceX’s Polaris Program, which launched its first commercial spaceflight early on Tuesday, Sept. 10, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

On 901 Day, here’s a look at Southern College of Optometry’s success at selling Memphis. This year’s freshman class includes alumni of 91 colleges and universities, who hail from 35 states. 

The 12-story building at 969 Madison Ave., which once included a Holiday Inn, will be torn down alongside two smaller parcels.

St. Jude is working to vaccinate children against a virus capable of causing a host of cancers in adulthood. 

Children with suspected genetic disease can suffer for years before being diagnosed and treated. Rapid whole-genome sequencing can change that. 

Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis said it has been harnessing robotic-assisted technology for better patient outcomes since 2011 and now has the largest fleet in the region. 

“Pet vaccination protects humans as well as our animals,” said Dr. Michelle Taylor, head of the Shelby County Health Department.

Donahue lived in New York with his wife, actress Marlo Thomas, daughter of Danny Thomas, founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Morris recently stepped down as CEO of Church Health, the nonprofit he founded 36 years ago to provide affordable health care for uninsured and underserved Memphians. 

Dr. Jon McCullers, who helped lead Memphis through the COVID-19 pandemic, is leaving for a new job in Houston. Here are his thoughts on how Memphis handled school closings, vaccinations, football games and Black Lives Matter protests.

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